I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.

I've met every freak in the business.

Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

My son is a hip-hop producer.